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Education

Ph.D. Biology (2006), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 

B.S. Biology (2001), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Research Interests

Her research interests are in the fields of Food, Energy and Environmental Security with major focus on improving the environmental sustainability and resilience of agricultural land. She strives to help develop strategies that are sustainable from an ecological and environmental perspective, and that are profitable and socially accepted. 

Her research approach uses a variety of tools to measure an array of biogeochemical processes across multiple spatial and temporal scales including stable isotopes along with plant, soil, and ecosystem gas exchange methods as well as the use of large-scale tools such as eddy covariance methods, process-based modeling and remote sensing. 

She has published numerous articles in esteemed journals including Science of the Total Environment, Global Change Biology, Ecological Applications and Journal of Geophysical Research, and she is Editor of Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems. She has been successful at engaging with diverse stakeholders including industry, business and communities through her research work at commercial and private ranches. Nuria has been awarded numerous grants from both private and federal funding for a total of over $12.2 M since 2016. 

Education

B.A. Environmental Studies - Biology (2023), Reed College, Oregon

Research Interests

Tess's research interests include environmental sustainability, ecological restoration, and ecophysiology. She is particularly interested in the influences of human behavior on the natural world and the development of methods to reduce detrimental anthropogenic impact. She is particularly drawn to projects that look at ecology through an interdisciplinary lens, incorporating chemistry, geology, economics, politics, and/or social justice.

She wrote her undergraduate thesis about investigating the relationship between urban refugia and dieback of native cedars in the pacific northwest. She has designed and run experiments looking at different environmental stressors and their impact on the physiological health of various plant species. She has also worked with the Forest Service on a project monitoring grassland demographics in varying drought and grazing conditions.

She is proud to contribute to work that supports a sustainable future in which people can peacefully coexist with the planet that is our home.

Education 

A.S in STEM studies (2019) from Community College of Vermont 

B.A in Ecology (2022) Sterling College, Vermont 

Research interests

Rohit’s research interests are in biogeochemistry, genomics, conservation and carbon cycling in ecosystems. In particular, he is interested in the nexus of biodiversity conservation planning for ecosystems that provide services such as carbon storage and freshwater provision. To that end, he is interested in ways to quantify biodiversity, groundwater and carbon storage in affordable ways. 

He is also interested in bioenergy from various feedstocks: he has built 6 anaerobic methane biogas digester systems in India and Africa, has completed a research internship with a startup attempting large scale seaweed cultivation for land & freshwater-neutral macro-algal biofuels. He is currently working on a side project converting his motorcycle to run on sugarcane based bio-ethanol. 

He believes understanding the complex tradeoffs between the food, water, energy and land nexus is essential to bioenergy playing a significant role in energy security without compromising various other forms of sustainability.